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Cinema Signifies a Change in the Fundamental Structure of Reality
ISSUE #013 - HERRI
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Gilles Deleuze and the Third Schema of Perception: time, sense, idea trapped in crystals
From Bergson's coexistence of the past with the present Deleuze produces a preexistent past. Or, cinema produces it for him, in that it lets him see the past stand out before the present. The question is, was it, so to speak, already there? Was it there for Deleuze
"The crisis continues..."
IT IS WHAT IT IS: recognition in cinema and AI is automated
The Weirdness of the Crystal Image in Cinema 2
Cinema Signifies a Change in the Fundamental Structure of Reality
reading Bergson: after the advent of cinema, series 1
the painter of mental scenery
journal
now some words from Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff's new book ...
... before I lend it to M. to read:
Toufic has a new book out, by the way, Two or Three Things I'm Dying to Tell You, which DeWitt was going to order for you on Amazon ... While writing (Vampires): An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in Film and
Requiescat In Natura: Wendell Berry 5 August 1934–31 August 2026
“I don’t think character exists anymore.” –Rachel Cusk
Werner Herzog: we lack adequate images
"the Oort Cloud has been functioning for billions of years as a sort of 'natural LLM'"
อ่าวนาง, Ao Nang & ไร่เลย์, Railay Beach
Stuart Cooke reads Sergio Pitol's El arte de la fuga
poetry
August 2026
how can such sheer physical beauty
be guarded , coupled with so crabbed and servile an existence ,
as to hunt in the rubbish dumps of all the world
for what has been used up and most despoiled
for cracked and injured minds,
to its own injury and the injury of its
SYMPHONY
Political Works
moieties*
A Piece of Fabric, Tell it to the birds & lying in long grass - for my parents
enantiomorphosis: the messianic | Danaë, or resistance
a journey (2016)
otherwriting
A Delicious Event
after Samanta Schweblin
The idea began as a recipe and became a recipe for writing a short fiction. Credit goes to Carmela Padua for the idea, which I connected to an interview with Samanta Schweblin in Bomb magazine. (Issue 173 / Fall 2025, pp. 40–47; online) In the interview she
I Am Out of Control of My Own Material
The Challenge of Writing a Novel: world, character creation and monstrosity
correspondence regarding "Cinema Signifies ..."
progress is a bad optic and the failure of political imagination
simile.ai | perfection = the absolute noncontingency of contingency
